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Rigoberto Uran at Giro 2014 S13 start - picture credit LaPresseRigoberto Uran joins Cannondale-Garmin
Rigoberto Uran has been unveiled as Cannondale-Garmin’s latest signing for the 2016 season.
The 28-year-old was silver medallist in the road race at the London 2012 Olympics behind Kazakhstan’s Alexandre Vinokourov.
He has also been runner-up twice at the Giro d’Italia – to Astana’s Vincenzo Nibali in 2013, a race Uran rode with Team Sky, and to his Colombian compatriot Nairo Quintana of Movistar last year, after his switch to Omega Pharma-Quick Step.
Uran was third overall in this year’s Tirenno-Adriatico, and will be racing in the one-day UCI WorldTour races in Quebec and Montreal later this month.
Confirmation of his arrival on a two-year contract with Cannondale-Garmin follows last week’s news that Dan Martin is headed the opposite way to Etixx-Quick Step.
Ryder Hesjedal, winner of the Giro d’Italia in 2012 – the year Uran won the best young rider’s classification at the Italian race – is also leaving Cannondale-Garmin, while Pierre Rolland is joining Jonathan Vaughters’ team from Europcar.
Vaughters said: “Rigo is a leader not just for his excellent skills on the road, but for his charisma.
“He brings style and passion to racing and he will be a huge asset to the team. Rigo has one more step to climb in the Giro and I will put my heart into helping make that happen.
“We are very excited to add him to our 2016 line-up,” he added.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Good for Garmindale finally getting a proven GC guy. Let's see if Mick Uran Uran can finally get that Giro win he so clearly covets and sets an example for Dombrowski and Formolo.